Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

I will sleep all day; I love staying in bed with my dog and reading and not getting up and checking my phone. And that gets me into trouble because I have things to do, and that's not very productive.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

I just enjoy both working and not working.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

When I do have spare time to write, I'm tempted to spend it napping.

The rest-seeking procrastinators would generally rather not exert themselves at all, while the fun-task procrastinators enjoy being busy and active all the time but have a hard time starting things that are not so amusing.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.